From: "Bob W"
From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sessoms
Sent: 28 November 2012 19:31
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Windows 8 Makes Me Consider a Mac
From: Brian Walters
Hmmm. Well the Win 7 start menu is certainly different on mine.
Here's the default Win 7 start menu on my PC:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/Win7-Default.jpg
And here's the 'Classic Shell' version which looks and works the same
way as my old XP start menu:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/Win7-ClassicShell.jpg
('Classic Shell' allows the user to switch back to the default menu
if
they want to. I don't!)
My problem with the default Win 7 interface is the way the programs
displayed on the left hand pane above the start button keep changing.
I want to fix the programs (and groups of programs) that I use most
there, and I can't with the default interface.
I hadn't noticed that, but I'm only using Windows 7 to run two programs
right now. I guess I haven't used the start menu all that much.
Adobe Bridge launches from a dialog box that appears whenever I plug
the SD card reader into the USB. Or I can launch it by double clicking
the desktop Icon. I almost always launch Photoshop from Bridge.
Mozilla Firefox is down there on the toolbar next to the start button.
I only use it for online Photoshop tutorials.
I built that computer strictly for photo editing, and so far, I've
managed to stick to that.
They change according to how much you use the software that you're starting
from the menu.
You can pin things to the start menu by right-clicking on the item you want
and choosing the appropriate option from the context menu that opens. This
has been available in Windows since the Eocene.
I think the items jumping around & only the most recent programs
appearing on the menu just above the start button has been there for a
while too.
I thought what Brian was saying is the ability to "pin" them there was
what's missing from Windoze 7.
My experience with XP is that even if you right click & tell it to keep
the item on the menu permanently, eventually it will still wander off
somewhere. You'll have to hunt it down and "pin" it there again. You
just don't have to do it as frequently.
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